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Contract Manager
GelderlandHybrid34 hours/week<3months
Drive around our country and you will see many roads (and waterways), tunnels, and bridges. A contractor is assigned to each object for its management and maintenance. As a contract manager at a government organization in the East of the Netherlands, you will take the lead: from preparation and tendering to contract execution.
What you do
- You are involved in one or more projects, such as various maintenance activities on highways and other infrastructural objects.
- You manage concluded contracts in consultation with a senior contract manager.
- You are responsible for contract control and constantly question whether the contractor meets the contractual requirements.
- Together with your colleagues, you ensure safe and easily accessible infrastructure.
- You supervise agreements with contractors performing work.
- You collaborate effectively with all involved parties and consider everyone's interests.
- You are the point of contact for the contracts under your responsibility.
- You discuss the status of your contracts with your project team members and share your knowledge and experience.
- You regularly engage with the internal client of the contract and with internal stakeholders such as the infrastructure managers.
- Together with your fellow contract managers, you ensure the professional implementation of contract management and proactively propose improvements.
What they ask
- Motivating: experience in leading a team of employees, directing, coaching, and stimulating them to achieve common goals.
- Organizational sensitivity: experience collaborating with colleagues from different organizations with varying interests, and working towards a common goal.
- Planning & organizing: experience monitoring your own work and that of others to stay on schedule.
- It may be helpful to answer the questions according to the STARR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result, Reflection).
Practical
- You will work in a team within a government organization, focused on road management in a specific region.
- The team consists of approximately 80 people.
- You will work at least 2 days a week with the team in the office.
- You will regularly travel throughout the country for work and to participate in a national Community of Practice for Contract Management.
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